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by Amy Bloom
If you liked A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, try these:
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsA spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
by Lorrie Moore
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsA novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
by Maile Meloy
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsAward-winning writer Maile Meloys return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Jan 2009
Read Reviews"Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead.
by Olaf Olafsson
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsA haunting collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children.
by Alice Munro
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsHere are the infinite betrayals and surprises of lovebetween men and women, between friends, between parents and childrenthat are the stuff of all our lives.
by Margot Livesey
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly -- and perhaps irrevocably -- in this surprising, suspenseful love story.
by Bernhard Schlink
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsA collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love---love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion.
by Kate Walbert
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsSpins several parallel stories about the emotional damage done by war. Like the mysterious arrangements of intricate sand, rock, and gravel found in the Kyoto Gardens, the stories gracefully come together in a single, rich mosaic.
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